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Good, this means that they should be able to do E-REV right.

Due to high gas prices and the "green movent", SUVs are NOT the status symbols they used to be. From now on people will only buy them when they NEED them to haul lots of stuff and/or tow trailers.

The day of the single gal buying an SUV just because they like to look over other traffic is gone.

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"Best Engineered Vehicle"?
um, I guess so.

"Green car of the Year"?
Ya Gotta Be Kidding! ROFLMAO!
No Way.

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@ #1 Tim.

Yea, but the days of Mom's wanting to feel safe in a big car aren't gone either. There's no denying that a 6500 lb Chevy Tahoe is going to come out a lot better in a collision than a 2500 lb Toyota Corolla.

It's all about percieved safety and as long as mothers continue to love their children there will always be a demand for heavy people haulers.

Kudos to GM for making by far the most fuel effecient of all of them.

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How many of 'us' are there? Plenty. It's only socialist greenie nutjobs who forego having kids to small families to 'save the planet'. They can have their Smart cars. Hauling our entire family requires six seats. Throw in just one friend or grandma and we're quickly at seven. Suburban territory. I'd have to buy at least three Smart cars to get everyone to the same destination and I'd be short one licensed driver.

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"Regardless of your viewpoint on the role that the Chevy Tahoe and GMC Yukon Hybrid play in the marketplace, the engineering that went into the vehicles is laudable."

Hmm, Mercedes, BMW, Chrysler use the same technology (or co-developed it) and they like it. What is not to like? only a "fool" with think otherwise.

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Now a days the Tahoe is like 5500lbs, and the Corolla is like 3000lbs.


Hey SAE, did you guys see the spare wheel?

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It's only socialist greenie nutjobs who forego having kids to small families to 'save the planet'. They can have their Smart cars.

People like the ones who make the above statement make me laugh. Hey buddy, you wanna go road warrior with me? I have no kids and lots of moolah. I can outbid you for gasoline and force you to drive the smart or walk first. If people with children want to make fun of childless couples who are concerned about the environment then they are cutting off their own ballz to spite their faces. Screw you and your spawn bozo, I'll waste gasoline until there's nothing left just so I can laugh in my grave. [/rant]

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How many are for sale. Is there an estimated number for how many of these "green cars" are going to be produced?

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"There's no denying that a 6500 lb Chevy Tahoe is going to come out a lot better in a collision than a 2500 lb Toyota Corolla."

Actually, there is. Very large SUVs tend to have rather poor driver fatalities per mile (not to mention very high causing of fatalities per mile in other vehicles). Midsized and small SUVs do fairly well, though. Most notably, there's much more variance between models within a group than between groups.

While overall there is a trend with increasing size and occupant safety (with the exception of very large SUVs), it's a rather weak relationship with a lot of variation, and it's not nearly as strong of a relationship as that between vehicle size and death of people in *other* vehicles. The difference between individual vehicles can't be overstressed. In terms of very large SUVs, for example, most models had very low fatality rates, but a couple of very popular models with very poor safety drag their overall results down to below that of midsized cars.

I don't have the stats on me so I can't compare the Tahoe with the Corolla, but there are no hard-fast rules for things like these.

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Just for the record.. HLDI rates the Corolla as "substantially worse than average" in personal injury losses and the Tahoe as "substantially better than average". Not that all small cars score poorly, the Mini Cooper and Toyota Prius are both rated "better than average".

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How about, no award till you actually sell 25,000. More Green BS.

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"There's no denying that a 6500 lb Chevy Tahoe is going to come out a lot better in a collision than a 2500 lb Toyota Corolla."

There is also no denying that a 6,500 lb. Chevy Tahoe is far more prone to rollovers than a 2,5000 lb Toyota Corolla - and rollovers have the highest fatality rates of any type of accident. Thanks to the extra weight, the Tahoe is also more likely to skid and take longer to brake, especially in adverse conditions. The Tahoe also doesn't do as well in accident avoidance manuvers.

Meme is right, the fatalities per passenger mile is higher in many large SUVs than in many small and midsize cars. Not all accidents are "car on car" collisions.

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Millions of cars like these are sold each year.
If they were all hybrids, like this one, far more fuel would be saved than by a few hundred thousand Prius.
Do I like them? Heck no. They clog the road and make driving small cars more dangerous.

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"There's no denying that a 6500 lb Chevy Tahoe is going to come out a lot better in a collision than a 2500 lb Toyota Corolla."
As always people see safety only from one point of view; the people inside the car and neglect that in an accident other can be involved too.. and with a SUV these "others" (people in a smaller car, pedestrians, bicyclists, you own kid playing behind your SUV on the driveway....) are in much greater danger than they would be with a Corolla.

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Yet you all fail to see the corolla pulling you boat with your family and have the room for your camping gear to boot. We are talking about a step in the right direction with SUVs and MPGs. Impressive.

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